Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page vi
... Geneva than the French readers to whom the original Journal primarily addresses itself , and some of the entries I have kept have probably , by the nature of things , more savour for us than for them . M. A. W. THE new and enlarged ...
... Geneva than the French readers to whom the original Journal primarily addresses itself , and some of the entries I have kept have probably , by the nature of things , more savour for us than for them . M. A. W. THE new and enlarged ...
Page xiii
... Geneva . The book , of which the general literary world knew nothing prior to its appearance , contained a long and remark- able Introduction from the pen of M. Ed- mond Scherer , the well - known French critic , who had been for many ...
... Geneva . The book , of which the general literary world knew nothing prior to its appearance , contained a long and remark- able Introduction from the pen of M. Ed- mond Scherer , the well - known French critic , who had been for many ...
Page xv
... Geneva itself he had been commonly regarded as a man who had signally disappointed the hopes and expectations of his friends , whose re- serve and indecision of character had in many respects spoilt his life , and alienated the society ...
... Geneva itself he had been commonly regarded as a man who had signally disappointed the hopes and expectations of his friends , whose re- serve and indecision of character had in many respects spoilt his life , and alienated the society ...
Page xvi
... Geneva is not a favourable start- ing - point for a French book , and it may well have seemed that not even the support of M. Scherer's name would be likely to carry the volume beyond a small local circle . But ' wisdom is justified of ...
... Geneva is not a favourable start- ing - point for a French book , and it may well have seemed that not even the support of M. Scherer's name would be likely to carry the volume beyond a small local circle . But ' wisdom is justified of ...
Page xxiii
... Geneva after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes . His father must have been a youth at the time when Geneva passed into the power of the French Republic , and would seem to have married and settled in the halcyon days following the ...
... Geneva after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes . His father must have been a youth at the time when Geneva passed into the power of the French Republic , and would seem to have married and settled in the halcyon days following the ...
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